Leaf River township, Ogle County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
Leaf River township: | 0.2% |
Whole state: | 12.3% |
73% of Leaf River township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1173
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 148
- South: 58
- West: 5
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $57,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.6% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 460
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 20
- 3 or 4: 28
- 5 to 9: 4
Housing units in Leaf River township with a mortgage: 171 (22 second mortgage, 23 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 133
- Construction (15%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Other direct selling establishments (6%)
- Electronic shopping and mail-order houses (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (12%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Leaf River township:
- German (48.2%)
- Irish (9.4%)
- English (8.2%)
- United States or American (8.0%)
- Swedish (6.0%)
- Italian (5.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 530 (79%)
- Carpooled: 61 (9%)
- Walked: 13 (2%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 61 (9%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (53%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (29%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Wood (2%)
97.3% of residents of Leaf River township speak English at home.
2.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,399- In family households: 1,234 (303 male householders, 81 female householders)
351 spouses, 484 children (385 natural, 7 adopted, 92 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 0 other relatives, 6 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 165 (83 male householders (75 living alone)), 63 female householders (56 living alone)), 19 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 153 2-persons, 91 3-persons, 80 4-persons, 16 5-persons, 34 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 131 1-person, 14 2-persons, 1 3-persons,
255 married couples with children.
38 single-parent households (14 men, 24 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 19
Here: | 11.8% |
Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 2.9% |
Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
Here: | 42.1% |
Illinois: | 25.8% |